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Celebrate and remember the lives of late newspaper colleagues.
Mar 1, 2022
Ralph Gage, who for decades served as the day-in-day-out leader of Lawrence’s largest media company, has died. Gage, who died of natural causes Jan. 29, 2022, had worked since 1969 for The World ...
Mar 1, 2022
Mike Parta died on Jan. 29 at the age of 74 after a long battle with cancer. During the course of his career, he owned the New York Mills Herald, Perham Enterprise-Bulletin, Wadena Pioneer Journal, Staples ...
Mar 1, 2022
Rex Dearmont Rust, co-president of Rust Communications, died the evening of Jan. 6 after a yearlong battle with cancer.
Mar 1, 2022
Sammy Jones Franklin, 81, of Jena, Louisiana, left this earth for glory on Jan. 28, 2022, at LaSalle General Hospital in Jena following a brief illness. He was the owner, publisher, and editor of The ...
Feb 1, 2022
Michael Keever, the longtime senior vice president and chief marketing officer of NTVB Media, died Dec. 11 from complications related to COVID-19. He was 55.
Feb 1, 2022
Murray Cohen, 92, of Delphos, Ohio, and Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, passed away on Dec. 7, 2021.
Feb 1, 2022
Robert Wick, who guided Wick Communications for nearly six decades, died Jan 13, 2022. He was 86. Wick’s life was a blending of the simple and the complex — found in his art, public service ...
Feb 1, 2022
Marianne was a force to be reckoned with within the newspaper community and led the The Newnan (Georgia) Times-Herald's newsroom with award-winning precision and a sharp sense of humor.
Feb 1, 2022
Tim Curtin, who owned and operated the Watonga (Oklahoma) Republican and other area newspapers for many years, died December 31, 2021. He was 77.